2 flash flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Tulsa, OK wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Dec 15, 9:45 PM CST, 5 hours 15 minutes earlier.
EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 945 PM CST SAT DEC 15 2001 HVY RAIN AND POSSIBLE FLOODING EVENT IN THE OFFING FOR ERN OK/NW AR. HAVE DECIDED TO ISSUE FFA GENERALLY ALONG AND E OF A LINE FROM EUFAULA TO TAHLEQUAH TO SILOAM SPRINGS. 00Z MODELS STARTING TO COME INTO EXCELLENT AGREEMENT SUPPORTING A SIGNIFICANT PCPN EVENT FOR PART OF THE CWFA. CURRENT FCST HAS THIS WELL IN HAND AND DON/T REALLY NEED TO MAKE MANY CHANGES EXCEPT TO ADJUST SOME HVY RAINFALL WORDING AND INCLUDE HEADLINES. ALSO WL DROP POPS SLIGHTLY IN THE NW BUT 2ND PERIOD POPS LOOK FINE ALL ZNS. 00Z ETA SHOWING VERY STRONG ISENTROPIC LIFT ALONG THE 295-310K SFCS. THIS IS ALSO SUPPORTED BY STRONG FRONTOGENETIC FORCING IN THE 850-500MB LAYER. FAVORABLE JET DYNAMICS ALSO COMING IN TO PLAY. LLVL MOISTURE BEING PROVIDED BY A 40-50KT LLVL JET. ALL THIS TO SAY THAT VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WILL OCCUR OVERNIGHT AND INTO THE DAY TOMORROW ACROSS ROUGHLY THE SE 1/2 OF THE CWFA. 3-5 INCH RAINFALL TOTALS SOMEWHERE NEAR THE CORRIDOR FROM HUGO TO FORT SMITH TO EUREKA SPRINGS ARE DEFINITELY POSSIBLE. UPDATED ZNS/FFA OUT IN A FEW... MANNING FCSTID = 24 .TSA... AR...FLASH FLOOD WATCH THROUGH SUNDAY FOR ZONES ARZ001>002...ARZ010>011...ARZ019>020...ARZ029. OK...FLASH FLOOD WATCH THROUGH SUNDAY FOR ZONES OKZ049...OKZ053...OKZ068>076.
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
228 AM CST SUN DEC 16 2001
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0120 AM HUGO OK FLOODING
12/16/01 CHOCTAW ROADS FLOODED EAST OF
HUGO. REPORTED COUNTY
SHERIFFS OFFICE.
DRMThe Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 99 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 08:59 UTC.
2 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Heavy thunderstorm rains caused water to flow over a county road five miles south of Kingston.
Heavy thunderstorm rains caused water to flow over a county road five miles south of Berryville.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Arkansas in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Arkansas, December 2001
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5275153, 5275154.